TI Korea (CEO Kent Jeon, www.ti.com/ww/kr) June 8, 2012- TI announced that it provides an integrated solution for portable devices designed to support Miracast™, a Wi-Fi certified standard based on the Wi-Fi Alliance® Wi-Fi Display Specification. Miracast™ is a new officially certified standard for transmitting display signals over wireless LAN. Through this solution, users can reliably display full HD content from portable devices to large screens over a secure, low-latency wireless network connection.

The Wi-Fi Alliance Miracast certification program defines a standards-based solution for streaming video and audio content over P2P Wi-Fi Direct™ wireless networks. This uniquely guarantees interoperability between Miracast devices including mobile phones, tablets, HDTVs, projectors, and audio receivers. TI's products leverage the low-power multimedia processing of the leading OMAP™ platform and M-Shield™ content security performance combined with robust WiLink™ connectivity product lines. Additionally, these devices provide an optimized solution designed for Miracast certification and are scheduled to be available by year-end.

Remi El-Ouazzane, Vice President and General Manager of the OMAP Platform Business Unit at TI, stated: "Social 'sharing' of visual experiences has become part of everyday life, and TI is pleased to provide a solution that enables consumers to easily share their experience with friends and family by moving content they enjoy on their portable devices to large screens. From the latest trending YouTube videos to accessing music and videos stored in the cloud, premium HD movies, interactive web browsing, and gaming, we believe Miracast will play an important role in enabling seamless and natural content sharing between mobile screens and large displays."

TI plans to deliver Miracast experiences to Android smartphones and tablets.
By extending wired HDMI™ external display and Wi-Fi Direct capabilities to Android, TI supports mobile device manufacturers in rapidly integrating wireless casting technology into their products, providing a rich experience for the Android platform. Whether mirroring the display of Android devices or streaming full HD content, the integrated architecture of OMAP application processors and WiLink connectivity solutions delivers optimized low-power systems without compromising media quality. TI provides hardware and software resources to enable Android device manufacturers to leverage Miracast capabilities and deliver the following differentiated user experiences:

• Streaming and Multitasking: Through enhanced video processing performance via dedicated OMAP hardware accelerators, consumers can simultaneously stream music or full HD movies at 1080p to a TV while continuing multitasking through web browsing or other mobile apps, checking the latest scores, managing email, typing messages, and more. The WiLink solution provides internet connectivity through Wi-Fi access points and Wi-Fi-enabled display connection to TVs, which TI is currently demonstrating at Computex.
• End-to-End Streaming: Users can launch a YouTube application on their mobile device and mirror it to the TV through the application UI (user interface). Users can select videos from the YouTube video gallery and send content to a large-screen TV in full-screen mode, then continue browsing the YouTube app for other videos. This same concept can be applied to other free and paid online premium video services as well as online TV services, and can be realized through the capabilities of WiLink connectivity solutions that simultaneously connect to the cloud and Miracast-certified displays. TI plans to demonstrate this Miracast use case at Computex as well.
• Premium Content Protection: TI's Android solution planned for Miracast is based on the performance of the M-Shield secure execution environment and can handle video with all DRM solutions. This ensures that protected premium content on mobile devices is safely played and HDCP encrypted when wireless streaming to remote Miracast-certified displays.
• Broader Content Selection for Playback Experience: TI's solution designed for Miracast supports various video content formats from the cloud and can transcode them to match the decoding performance of Miracast-certified displays as needed through multi-standard hardware encode/decode accelerators.
• UI Mirroring for Large-Screen Gaming: In this mode, users can send the exact content from a small mobile device display to a larger screen. This provides a higher level of interactive experience through mobile devices. Users can play the latest video games and comfortably share photo galleries, applications, and other mobile content with family and friends on a large screen without gathering around the mobile device. Based on OMAP processors and WiLink connectivity products, TI's solution designed for Miracast delivers a complete and satisfying user experience through these common use cases.

TI actively participates in the development of the Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi Display Specification and plays a leading role in making it a de facto casting technology for moving mobile screen content to larger screens. TI expects its solution to become Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast when certification becomes available by year-end and is collaborating with customers to ensure rapid market launch of Miracast-certified products.

Availability
This solution is currently available to high-volume OEM and ODM customers. TI plans to provide a Miracast solution using OMAP 5 processor and WiLink 8.0 solution by year-end. The latest TI-based Miracast demonstration using OMAP4470 processor and WiLink 7.0 connectivity solution is being exhibited at booth TICC 101D at Computex Taipei, being held from June 5-9 this week. To arrange a visit to the demonstration, contact ti@apexpr.com.tw.

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